National research infrastructure with multimillion grant comes to CFIM
CFIM is to host the Danish BioImaging research collaboration that has just been granted nearly DKK 50 million for better equipment and new state-of-the-art analysis facility.
Danish BioImaging research infrastructure has just been granted nearly DKK 50 million from the Ministry of Higher Education and Science to upgrade the current bioimaging technology portfolio in seven core facilities around Denmark and create the first of its kind world-wide national image analysis core facility.
The Core Facility for Integrated Microscopy will, as lead partner in the research consortium, host the directorate and hub of the Danish BioImaging Research Infrastructure. The Director of the national research infrastructure will be Associate Professor Clara Prats, Director of the Light Microscopy and Image Analysis Units at CFIM.
Danish BioImaging is a collaboration between Danish universities, research institutions, and private companies with an interest in the depiction of the biological processes at the cellular and organism level without affecting them. The purpose of the collaboration is to strengthen bioimaging in Denmark by ensuring a coordinated investments and knowledge-sharing among core facilities across the country.
The grant is part of a two-fold increase in the funding of the national research infrastructures. The Ministry of Higher Education and Science has prioritised DKK 65 million extra for research infrastructures, with a total of DKK 134 million for advanced equipment, databases and laboratory and test facilities, including Danish BioImaging, which receives the largest grant of DKK 49.7 million.
"Danish BioImaging will have a great impact on the available infrastructures and available bioimaging technologies at CFIM and the other core facilities around Denmark, bringing new opportunities to SUND researchers and life science researchers all over Denmark," says Clara Prats about the future infrastructure.
In addition to upgrading the available bioimaging technologies, a new national image analysis facility will also be set up in collaboration with computer scientists from DIKU and DTU Compute. The first of its kind world-wide to link computer sciences to life sciences, a synergy that will boost research innovation and discoveries.